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Pain, that's all I have felt from the moment I turned eight. To be honest, I have no clue why my family hate...
Y/n and Ruby are having a conversation, and they didn't know I was listening.
Y/n: Honestly. Yeah, I would, it honestly gets depressing not being able to feel things anymore, I wish there was some way to feel again.
I smiled, thinking about how the machine is almost done. It will restore his nerves, and restore his skin to its original look. Hopefully, it will be before Miss Belladonna confesses to him because she doesn't make it hard to realize her feelings for him.
Your PoV Present Time
Holy shit, Jaune is hopeless. He was leaning on his weapon, clearly exhausted, his opponent, Cardin Winchester, laughed at his tiredness as Jaune gathers the last of his strength to charge forward and perform an overhead swing of his blade at Cardin, only for him to easily dodge the heavily telegraphed attack. Jaune looks back, surprised, as Cardin's mace is swung underhand, and hits Jaunes shield, and Jaune, causing him to fly backward. Now only armed with his sword, Jaune continued to try to attack but is blocked by the mace's hilt. Their weapons are now locked, Cardin forced himself up, towering over the now struggling Jaune.
Cardin: This is the part where you lose.
Jaune: Over my dead-!
Jaune was cut short when Cardin kneed him in the gut, making him drop his sword and hunch over in pain. Cardin raises his mace, and as he is about to slam it down on Jaune, the buzzer rings, and the lights come on.
Glynda: Cardin, that's enough!
Cardin relents and walks away as she comes onto the stage, tapping her tablet.
Glynda: Students, as you can see, Mr. Arc's Aura has now dropped into the red. In a tournament-style duel, this would indicate that Jaune is no longer fit for battle and that the official may call the match.
Jaune lies on the floor in defeat, and I looked to see Pyrrha with a sad expression. Glynda turns her head to look at the losing warrior as he pulls out his scroll, looking at his Aura.
Glynda: Mr. Arc, it's been weeks now. Please try to refer to your scroll during combat. Gauging your Aura will help you decide when it's appropriate to attack, or when it is better to move to a more... Defensive strategy. We wouldn't want you to be gobbled up by a Beowolf, now, would we?
Cardin: Speak for yourself...
Glynda: Remember, everyone, the Vytal Festival is only a few months away! It won't be long before students from the other kingdoms start arriving in Vale, so keep practicing! Those who choose to compete in the combat tournament will be representing all of Vale!
The bell rang, and all of us left, leaving Pyrrha continuing to from sadly. Jaune, still sitting on the floor, hangs his head in shame as the rest of us leave the room to go to lunch. I was seated with RWBY and JNPR. Nora was telling an unbelievable story to us.
Nora: So! There we were, in the middle of the night...
Ren: It was day.
Nora turned to us, Blake wasn't paying attention and was lost in her book, secretly taking glances at me from time to time. Yang, who is hanging on to every word that Nora was saying, cupping her face with her hands.
Nora: We were surrounded by Ursai...
Ren picked up his coffee, getting ready to drink from it before he corrected Nora.
Ren: They were beowolves.
Nora: Dozens of them!
She screamed as she stood at the table, where Weiss is ignoring her will filing her nails, Ruby and Pyrrha are listening politely, and Jaune is messing with his food.
Ren: Two of 'em.
Ruby, Pyrrha, and I looked at a distant Jaune with concern while still slightly paying attention.
Nora: But they were no match... And in the end, Ren and I took them down and made a boatload of Lien selling Ursa skin rugs!
Ren sighed
Ren: She's been having this recurring dream for nearly a month now.
Pyrrha: Jaune? Are you okay?
Jaune snapped out of it, turning back toward us.
Jaune: Huh? Oh, yeah! Why?
Ruby: It's just that you seem a little... not okay...
Me: Jaune, you know that you can tell us anything, right?
Jaune: Guys, I'm fine. Seriously! Look!
He held up a thumb while giving us a nervous laugh until his attention is focused on the members of Team CRDL, standing Velvet Scarlatina, a second-year Faunus girl, who is constantly being bullied because of her ears. Cardin laughed at her, and Sky Lark held up his hands to his head in a mock interpretation of her ears. I was slowly losing my temper, but I can't attack yet since he isn't technically doing anything that I can fight him for.
Pyrrha: Jaune, Cardin's been picking on you since the first week of school!
Jaune: Who? Cardin Winchester? Nah... He just likes to mess around! You know, practical jokes!
Ruby: He's a bully!
Jaune: Oh, please! Name one time he's 'bullied' me.
Me: Jaune, you are one of my best friends, but you are so oblivious sometimes.
Pyrrha: In more ways than one. As for the times he's bullied you, there was that one time that he knocked your book out of your hands.
Me: What about that time that he transformed your sheath into its shield form when you walked through the door, you were stuck there until I came along and had to press the button to transform it again because you couldn't get it off your belt.
Ruby: When he shoved you into the rocket-propelled locker and sent you to downtown Vale?
Jaune: It didn't take that long to get out!
Me: Jaune, you couldn't get out because there isn't a safety release on the inside, and it wasn't assigned to anyone, so I had to use my explosive rounds to blow the lock off...
Pyrrha: Jaune, you know if you ever need help, you can just ask.
Norra: Ooooh! We'll break his legs!
Jaune: Guys, really, it's fine! Besides, it's not like he's only a jerk to me; he's a jerk to everyone.
We looked over to CRDL's spot, hearing laughing growing louder with the mixed cries of Velvet, whose ears were being pulled. I pulled out Blood Lust and switched it to its revolver form and started to spin it.
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I loaded it with explosive rounds and shot each of the members of CRDL, shattering their Auras and knocking them unconscious.
Pyrrha: Atrocious. I can't stand people like him.
Blake: He's not the only one...
Yang: It must be hard to be a Faunus.
Jaune got up from the table and sighed to himself before moving on with his tray, leaving me to reload my gun, and the rest of us to continue talking.
